Sam Knight

Sam Knight is a staff writer at The New Yorker based in London. He has profiled the British politicians Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, and Sadiq Khan for the magazine, and has written about dressage, art fraud, and reality television gone wrong. His story “Follow the White Ball,” a profile of the snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan, was anthologized in the 2016 edition of “The Best American Sports Writing.” He writes a fortnightly column for newyorker.com, Letter from the U.K. Previously, Knight was a contributing writer for the Guardian’s The Long Read, and his work has appeared in the Financial Times, Grantland, and Harper’s.

Thinking about Britain’s deep past, I am always struck by how fluid and exotic it was. Our inheritance is nothing like the banal nationalism of the Brexiteers.

August 12, 2019

Brexit, for which Johnson is partly responsible, has defined the limits of British politics for the past three years, and as Prime Minister he will find it as intricate and unforgiving as his predecessor did.

While Rui Pinto sits in jail, his revelations are bringing down the sport’s most famous teams and players.

May 27, 2019

The only stated aim of the nationalist politician’s new Brexit Party is to remove Britain from the E.U. without a deal, an outcome that is likely to crash the economy and interrupt the country’s food and medical supplies.